Be The Star You Truly Are!

This is another “Who wouldda thunk it!” happening. A week or so ago I took the M Train to a street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I don’t think I’d ever been on that street before. It was in the north end of South Williamsburg. I was going to rehearse with an accordionist for my son’s birthday show of “Le Squeezebox Cabaret”. While on the train, crossing the Williamsburg Bridge, I called a friend, who lives not far from the 59th St. Bridge in Queens. For some reason, while I was speaking with her, my brain turned the Williamsburg Bridge into the 59th St. Bridge. When I got off the train my mind was still in Queens.

As I walked toward Hewes Street, the street on which the musician told me he lived, I kept thinking about my childhood and how we never really went to Queens. It was walking on a work street and, for some reason, I didn’t think of the fact that there were many Chasidic men clearing packages from stores and putting them into a truck. It was only two days before Passover and, I’m sure there was lots of work to be done by the Kosher food storeowners. I think I, also, passed by a temple. Many Chassidic Jews live in Williamsburg. I kept walking and continued thinking about how interesting it was that I’d never spent much time in Queens when I was a kid and that I was so lucky to have grown up in Brooklyn. (My family didn’t think too much of Queens.) You had to go there to get to the airport and it was the way to Jones Beach, which, while beautiful, wasn’t like Coney Island that had the Cyclone! I could feel my body tense and feel like it didn’t belong in this less than lovely place. For the first time in years I felt there might be danger on the street – and it was daylight! Then my mind went to my son’s North Williamsburg neighborhood and how fabulous that had become with its gorgeous waterfront promenade and the great restaurants and clubs that had opened there in recent years, etc.

As I walked a bit further, it hit me like a ton of bricks. Hello! I was in Brooklyn! I’d gone to Williamsburg – not to Long Island City. My body suddenly felt warm and caressed and the architecture of the old buildings looked interesting and I felt them lovingly surrounding me. I turned the corner and easily figured out where the building I’d be rehearsing in had to be. The street looked tree-lined and lovely. I got a kick out of seeing school busses with Hebrew writing on them. My eyes were opened and felt the joy I get from walking through fabulous places – or what I deem to be fabulous.

I then realized that when I was thinking “Brooklyn” I felt love, warmth, history, excitement and ownership! I feel that in London, Firenze, Sorrento, Napoli, San Diego, Tucson and Nashville – i.e. places in which I had great experiences in the past. Manhattan and Brooklyn top any ioplace in terms of the joyful feelings I experience! But, when I thought “Queens”, it was my dad’s thoughts about Queens that affected the very way my skin felt.

Once again, I realized there’s so much joy to be gotten from unlearning the judgments we were taught to make before we even realized we were choosing to make judgments.

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BOBBIE’S BIO

Bobbie began her theatrical career as an actress, studying with Stella Adler, Lee Strasberg and Gene Frankel. She appeared in over thirty NYC productions in theaters such as: Playwright’s Horizon’s, AMAS Rep., Hudson Guild, The Gene Frankel Theater, TNC, All Souls’ Players, and the Jean Cocteau Repertory. She also appeared in regional theater and summer stock, working with Jose Ferrer, Katherine Houghton and others.

Bobbie founded and served as Co-Executive/Artistic Director (1999-2006) of The Times Square Group, a not for profit, arts-in-education company, bringing arts education to students in New York City public high and junior high schools. The schools served ranged from arts focused schools to special schools for troubled students.

A half of the comic musical writing/performing team Horowitz & Spector, she won a MAC Award (Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs) for their show, Whatever Happened To the Kids From Brooklyn? Their songs have received NY Daily News, Billboard and ASCAP awards and have been played on theatrical musical country radio stations. The pair can be seen on You Tube. Tony winner, Chuck Cooper recorded their song, Together America”
. Bobbie now writes for cabaret performers and is writing a musical. She wrote a musical, The S.C.R.A.P. Workshop with John Meyer and was asked to write a special tribute the top earner of Isagenix. She performed the song at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas.

She was Executive Producer of Drama Desk Awards 1999 & 2000 and Associate Producer in 2001. Bernadette Peters, Bebe Neuwirth and Lily Tomlin were the hosts respectively. As a commercial theater producer she presented, The Betrayal of Nora Blake, at The Jermyn Street Theatre in London, where it’s sold-out, extended production earned rave reviews and later at The Cuillo Centre for the Arts in West Palm Beach, where it was voted 'Best Musical” by The Palm Beach Post. In past years she produced Angel Street, A Black Girl Talks To God, Victims of Duty and The Great American Backstage Musical off and off-off Broadway.

Bobbie produced major events, among them the first annual Soap Opera Day Celebration along with Mayor’s Koch’s Office of Film, Television and Broadcasting, Ruth Warrick’s Confessions of Phoebe Tyler Book-Launch with guest Ruby Keeler, the Mr. Bill in Space Book-Launch for Real-Good Productions and a Salute to Viveca Lindfors. She co-produced the Farewell To Bowie Kuhn event, which included speakers Howard Cosell, Sonny Werblin and President Emeritus Gerald Ford for The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

As an Image Consultant, Bobbie serves private clients and has given seminars at Queens College, NYU School of Film & Television, The NY State School of Industrial & Labor Relations, T. Schreiber Studio, the Learning Annex, trade conventions at The Javitz Center, for corporations and, most recently through The Network. Her article MAXIMPACT was published in the AICI news, She co-wrote the presentation for an Escada fashion tour and was quoted in Seventeen Magazine. Her new book, Find Your Mini Qs: Reveal the Star You Truly Are at 50,60,70 & Beyond! will be in print summer 2010 and her book You’re Looking At A Winner is being updated. She was VP-Education of the Tri-State Chapter of The Association of Image Consultants, International from 1991-1993.

Bobbie was educated in the NYC Public School system, at The New York State School of Industrial & Labor Relations at Cornell University (Class Marshall) and at Teachers’ College, Columbia University.